NEW ZEALAND TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9640, 15 January 1903, Page 2

NEW ZEALAND TRADE WITH BRITAIN.

1 - i ——, * . ■ . . ' AN OFFER FROM BRISTOL. Mr Samuel Smith, of Dunediji, who recently, returned trom England, when at Home Bristol, and ; vms thei-e introduced to the Mayor and; Chairman of the New Dock Committee, Mr P; B. Girdles tone. • •.:■■• .!■■'■. Bristol is going m for a very large expenditure on docks 'and huge storage accommodation. : Two millions have alretuly been spent an new-. docks and amongst. Bristol people for designs for encouragingocean traders. „ ,It .'entertains, a .'proposuli to e«tablif}h direct, relationsltip jurith New < Zealand. . Mr Smith was treated as are- J presentative Nevy, ZeaJundei 1 , and was asked to see Mr Seddon- while the latter was m Londpn, to lay the proposals before him. He waited on Mr Seddon, jind was told. that the Premier was too busy to,see him, but if he hud anything- to say about the' colony .he had better go to the Agent-Genend. Thinking it was not the Agent-General's biwdness, but a maltev for a Minister, of the Crown, Mr Smith, resolved to do nothing furtheir until k> came to the colony fully armed. with credentials and authorisations. . H» ha« made up his mind to lay the matter before,the Government. ', : Shortly put, Bristol wants to be (fte depot for New Zealand produce, for distribution all over the W.est of England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. With this object m view, the Dock Committee if. prepared to offer an animal subsidy, aijfl Mr Girdlestone says he has no doubt that the Bristol Council, the body conu^ctedl with tJie Dock Committee, will offer -m other subsidy on condition tha6 New Zealand supplies the third. Mr Smiths present intention is to lay the matte- before Sir J. G. Ward. ■.■ . .